“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”